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▪ I. caulker|ˈkɔːkə(r)|
Forms: 5– calker, 6 cawker, 7– caulker.
[f. caulk v. + -er1.]
1. One whose work it is to caulk ships.
1495Act. 11 Hen. VII, xxii. §1 A maister Calker by the day iiijd. 1552Huloet, Calkers betle, or malle to dryue in towe. 1611Bible Ezek. xxvii. 9, 27. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xvi. 55 One was a ship wright, and the other a Caulker. 1780Coxe Russ. Disc. 107 Old cordage fit for caulker's use. 1802Naval Chron. VII. 370 The..caulkers continued at their work.
2. A tool for caulking, ? a caulking-iron.
1543Richmond. Wills (1853) 43 Iij payre of pynsowrs, vid...ij cawkers, ijd. 1779Naval Chron. (1799) I. 203 It..shivered two caulkers to pieces. 1899Daily News 10 June 8/7 The pneumatic caulkers.
3. slang. A dram, a ‘drop’ of liquor. [? something ‘to keep out the wet’.]
1808J. Mayne Siller Gun 89 (Jam.) The magistrates wi' loyal din, Tak aff their cau'kers. 1832–53Whistle-binkie (Sc. Songs) Ser. iii. 89 Wi' here tak' a caulker, and there tak' a horn. a1854J. Wilson Trees, Neither you nor I..can be much the worse..of a caulker of whiskey.
4. slang. Anything surprising or incredible; cf. crammer.
▪ II. caulker
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